Swede First Coma Victim to Climb Mt. Everest

Swedish coma victim Örjan Holmger became the first person in a persistent vegetative state to successfully climb Mt. Everest.

Holmger arrived on the summit on May 29th with the assistance of Sherpas Lilonge Sherpa and Pemba "Pull" Sherpa. The climb is the sixth peak of the famed "Seven Summits" that Holmger has successfully completed since a debilitating cycling accident in 2003. The Seven Summits challenge consists of the tallest peaks on each continent. To date approximately 270 climbers have completed all seven.

It was originally hoped that Holmger's Everest climb would be the final of the seven, but that hope was dashed when the team was forbidden access to Vinson Massif in Antarctica due to safety concerns. The team hopes that their success on the world's highest mountain peak will spur Adventure Network International to allow the Vinson Massif climb to take place in December 2010.

Important! Don't eat the polar bear liver!

Polar Bear Liver is dangerous! Is contains a huge concentration of the "vitamin A". So much of the vitamin A that eating it can kill you. I just read a story about four explorers who were trapped in the arctic and they died, probably from the liver of a polar bear they were eating! So if you are ever eating polar bear(!!!!) just throw the liver away! It's not healthy like the liver of a chicken or beef. It can kill you! Pass this along!

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Fun Facts You Might Not now

Napoleean:
Not short!
People think that Napoleean was really short, (they even named a complex after it!) But actually thats only HALF TRUE. Napolean was over 6 feet tall! but people in France in the 1800s were much taller than regular man is today, so 6 feet was actually considered really short at the time!

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Turkeys!

New Research in Egypt has shows that the first Turkeys in the world weren't actually wild animals, but were raised by Egyptians for their eggs and food!

So next time you see a Turkey, remember this American icon
bird and meal is actually of Egyptian heritage!

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Were We Cave Men?
we have always thought that the first men (and women) in the world lived in caves, but new research from the Khazar University in Azerbaijan shows that first man may have actually lived in trees instead of in caves. Always question your assumptions because people are changing their minds about history all the time. : )

Political Unrest in Honduras Not Effecting Coffee Production

TEGUCIGALPA JUNE 28 2009
The political and social unrest in Honduras shows no sign of affecting the output of Honduran coffee.

Despite a military coup which ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya, and the crackdown on peaceful pro-Zelaya protesters in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, Reuters today reported "no immediate sign the unrest would affect production [of coffee]".

In November, the U.S. Government projected that Honduras will produce 4.1 million (60 kilograms) bags of coffee. Coffee exports for 2009 are forecast at 3.6 million 60 kilogram bags.

Honduran Coffee Institute (IHCAFE)
Reuters

Yeah?

You're gonna punch me in the face? I'll punch you in the face! How do you like that?

An American Tragedy

LOS ANGELES - Rock music producer Phil Spector was convicted Monday of second-degree murder in the shooting death of a film actress at his mansion six years ago, a verdict that will send him to prison for at least 18 years barring a successful appeal. (AP)

This is the greatest miscarriage of justice in my lifetime, at least. Look at him. Look at Phil Spector. (That's him in the photo). Does he really look like he could hurt anyone? Look at him.

Alright, fine. So, let's say he did kill her. Who was she? What's her name? Exactly. Now, who did OJ Simpson Kill? You knew it: Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. So, OJ gets to kill two people, and Spector doesn't even get one? America needs to support its artists. Genius should not be restrained by the whims of current social mores.

OJ sneaked up on his wife and her buddy Ron. He ambushed them in some fancy Los Angeles alleyway. That was sneaky. This woman that Spector shot, allegedly, she voluntarily went home with him, after voluntarily hanging out with him somewhere else. So, saying he did shoot her in the mouth, which is uncertain, well.. She had been hanging out with him all night. So come on.

As if the guilty verdict isn't bad enough, they denied bail, and he will be in jail now pending his appeal. Why not house arrest with access to a limited number of night clubs, seeing as he will surely be acquitted on appeal? My head hangs low tonight. Once again, the LA legal system has shamed us.